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Reed Floarea | Professional Indexer

“If an index is a map of the writer’s mind, Reed Floarea is the most brilliant of cartographers, precise, thorough, and imaginative.” - Siddhartha Deb, author of Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India

A tall window looks out on the sun rising over lush, green trees with a tall, urban building behind them. On the windowsill there are many books open and laying on top of each other.

Reading was one of my first loves. As a kid, I would stay up late with a book under the covers long after I was supposed to be asleep. I’m still surprised that I got my BA in psychology, instead of literature.

After a career in public health and behavioral health, I wanted to get back to my roots with books and started looking for options in the publishing industry. In August 2023, I completed my training in indexing through University of California, Berkeley Extension’s Indexing Theory and Application course.

I focus on back-of-the-book indexes for trade and academic books. I am especially interested in books on queer theory, disability justice, anarchism, abolition, labor movements, and liberation struggles. I prioritize working with publishing houses that are committed to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). You can learn more about PACBI through the BDS movement and Writers Against the War on Gaza.

I live and work in Brooklyn, NY/Lenapehoking, the traditional and unceded land of the Lenape.